Implementation tools & resources

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You probably have a list of your customers and suppliers, but is it up-to-date?

Whatever your business size, keeping up can be a chore. And once the list is out-of-date, it’s hard to get back on track.  

There’s a simpler way. If you knew the NZBN of each business on your list, you could stay up-to-date more easily and receive alerts when their information changes.

Finding those NZBNs can take time, but we can help. We can match the businesses on your list to their NZBNs. It’s our free, secure NZBN-Business Match service.

Just give us any of the following for the businesses you want NZBNs for:

• trading name
• legal entity name or
• Companies Office registration number.

It’s simple and safe! We’ll run your list through our NZBN-Business Match programme and return it to you with the NZBNs we’ve found.

Just email us to learn more - support@nzbn.govt.nz

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You work on your own, so your day can be stretched. Everyone wants information.

They add up and there's only one of you running your business and working behind the scenes. With NZBN you keep your core business information updated digitally in one place where everyone can get it.

When some of that information changes, your business contacts can be notified automatically about the change and that's just the start.

There's a globally unique NZBN for every kiwi business, making it easier for all businesses to digitally connect and stay up to date.

The NZBN register is searched millions of times each year, saving businesses time and money. As more businesses get an NZBN savings will increase for everyone exponentially.

Get your NZBN now. It's easy and free to apply.

Go to nzbn.govt.nz/soletrader

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Kiwi businesses are connecting with the NZBN, the New Zealand Business Number that's unique locally, nationally and globally.

Each NZBN is one of a kind, just like your business and there's an NZBN for every kiwi business whether you work out of your garage, you're a large retailer or a global exporter.

Having an NZBN helps businesses connect and share information a business is most often asked for by suppliers, customers and government.

Registered companies have been allocated an NZBN. Sole traders, partnerships and trusts can get yours free on our website.

Share your NZBN and ask other businesses for theirs. As more businesses get one and everyone is using them, time and cost savings will increase for everyone exponentially.

Use our free services to stay in the know and automate time-consuming work.

Find out more on our website nzbn.govt.nz

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Every kiwi business can have a New Zealand Business Number, NZBN, to stay up to date.

By creating an NZBN watch list of the businesses you interact with, you'll automatically receive an update of any of their NZBN information changes.

So your emails, invoices and deliveries will get to the right place, and you'll know if the business makes other changes too.

Tell your business network about it so they can add you to their NZBN watch list and save you from having to update everyone individually.

The NZBN Register is searched millions of times each year saving businesses time and money.

As more businesses get and use the NZBN these savings will increase for everyone exponentially.

• Log on to nzbn.govt.nz
• Search for a business you want to follow
• Click on the business
• Click to add to watch list, and
• to add more businesses repeat the process.

It's that easy and it's all enabled by the NZBN.

You'll find information about other free services on our website nzbn.govt.nz

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We’re making it easier for businesses to connect, build high quality business networks and automate time-consuming work.

If you work with a lot of businesses, our NZBN API – Application Programming Interface – is the best way to find, share and update information about those businesses and your own. With some technical know-how, it connects your business systems and ours, streamlining the transfer of information. It’s working too – there are millions of searches of the NZBN register each year.

Use it to:

• Search the NZBN Register
• Pre-populate forms
• Verify core business information
• Get automatic information updates

Integrate it with your finance, procurement or customer relationship manager applications.

It’s free to connect to and use.

Just visit www.api.business.govt.nz

• Choose the ‘APIs’ tab or ‘Explore APIs’.
• Click the NZBN tile for information for you and your IT developer.

Ready to get started?

www.api.business.govt.nz(external link)

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First speaker John Doorbar, Policy Director Small Business and Strategic Projects, Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment

Kia ora I am John Doorbar, I’m currently a policy director here at MBIE.

Two years ago, I was working for New Zealand Māori Tourisim. We were talking, the CEO at New Zealand Māori Tourisim, the CEO at Federation of Māori Authorities, and the CEO of Poutama Trust and Māori Women’s Development Inc were discussing the real issues we have with Māori data and the lack of data of Māori business and economic activity.

So, it was started off by those Māori Non-Government Organisations as a challenge to the Government to please get on and do something about it.

You can’t manage what you can’t measure, how do you know what you are doing is effective and what can we do about this.

You know, so 18 months later those organisations are still at the table with Government as we develop this.

So it’s an ongoing process and it’s an ongoing partnership. It’s not perfect at the moment, but we want to make it perfect, and we want to keep working with those organisations to get it as good as possible.

We hope in a year’s time, 5 years’ time, 10 years’ time, it’s just the norm and it’s at the centre of the data system and we would have forgotten what it was like not to have good data on Māori business.

Second speaker Ata Te Kanawa, Founder, Indigenous Māori Fashion Apparel Board

Kia ora ko Ata Te Kanawa toku ingoa.

I am the founder of a business called Indigenous Māori Fashion Apparel Board. It’s got a trading name Miromoda and we are an Indigenous Fashion events company.

One thing I know about Māori is we don’t need anyone telling us what to do or giving us a growling. But for this particular purpose, where it informs data, I think it is really important that we do it. But also, you are not obliged to do it, but I think it would help going forward, for our next generations. And just building our Māori economy actually, that’s important.

Third speakers Keri & Paul Retimanu, Owner-Operators, Manaaki Management Limited

Kia ora.

Ko Keri Retiman ahau.

Ko Whakarongorua te maunga.

Ko Māmari te waka.

Ko.

Hokianga te awa

Ko.

Mataitauate te marae

Ko Ngāpuhi te iwi

Paul is my husband, and we are the owner-operators of Manaaki Management Limited based on the Wellington waterfront.

Yeah, look we think this is a great initiative, we talk about the Māori economy being worth billions of dollars, but nobody actually knows where those businesses are and where they are trading. So, we think it’s really important for that to find out where they are.

The second piece to that is Māori would really like to collaborate with their own. It’s about the future of our tamariki, the future of our mokopuna and for us to be able to make informed decisions about where their careers are going to go, the sectors they need to get into, all those sorts of decisions which are really really important, in particular you know from education coming through from the very start of primary school to going to University or into the trades, we need to know where those best places are. So, this jumping online will help the future focus of our people. Without a doubt.

www.nzbn.govt.nz

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Hundreds of thousands of kiwi businesses are already using their NZBN to link to the core business information they need to share, making it easier to connect and interact digitally with customers, suppliers, other businesses, and government agencies.

Smaller businesses may find the NZBN is the only digital identifier they need. However, larger more complex businesses may benefit from taking this to the next level by using globally unique identifiers for different parts of their business. This creates exciting new possibilities, for example, a branch of one business can interact directly with the department of another, streamlining ordering, delivery, and invoicing.

Organisation Parts will make it easier to track product development for example from the paddock to the plate. The NZBN, and Organisation Parts, provide the common standard and shared network which is supporting New Zealand's journey towards digital innovation. They will help future-proof businesses by helping to prepare for unexpected events and to take advantage of new opportunities. To find out more, visit nzbn.govt.nz

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Alex is one of your business customers. He’s got a question, so he phones your contact centre.

You answer the call from Alex.

Alex has his NZBN at the ready, but your organisation hasn’t built an NZBN look-up function into its systems yet.

So, how can you identify Alex’s business, and find the information you need?

As a temporary measure, you can use the search function of the NZBN website. Navigate to www.nzbn.govt.nz and input Alex’s NZBN into the search field.

Alex’s business shows up in the search results, and you select the business name.

Great, you’ve now successfully recognised Alex’s business using only his NZBN. Easy! From here you can see the information you need, like the business’s trading name, phone number and physical address.

Now that you have all of Alex’s key business information, you can help him with his query.

Te reo Māori

Ko Alex tētahi o ō kiritaki pakihi. He pātai tāna, ā, ka waea atu ia ki tō pokapū whakapā.

Ka whakautu koe i te waea a Alex.

Kua reri mai te NZBN a Alex, engari kāore anō kia hangaia e tō whakahaere tētahi taumahi rapu NZBN ki ana pūnaha.

Nā, me pēhea tō tautohu i te pakihi a Alex, me kimi i ngā mōhiohio e hiahia ana koe?

Hei whakaritenga wā poto, ka taea e koe te taumahi rapu o te paetukutuku a NZBN te whakamahi. Whakatere ki www.nzbn.govt.nz ka tāuru i te NZBN a Alex ki te āpure rapu.

Ka puta mai te pakihi a Alex i ngā otinga rapu, ā, ka tīpako koe i te ingoa pakihi.

Ka pai, kua āhukahukatia e koe te pakihi a Alex mā te whakamahi anake i tana NZBN anake. He māmā! Mai i konei ka kitea e koe ngā mōhiohio e hiahia ana koe, pērā i te ingoa tauhokohoko o te pakihi, te tau waea me te wāhinoho.

I te mea kei a koe ngā mōhiohio pakihi katoa a Alex, ka taea e koe ia te āwhina me tana pātai.